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We should have just expanded Medicaid instead of passing Obamacare. They grossly over exaggerated the number of people who were unable to buy health care insurance to create the illusion of a crisis, which they didn't waste. No need to force the rest of us into bureaucratic nightmare when there was an easier solution.
Obama and congress could have chosen to assist small businesses in succeeding by not passing so many oppressive laws. That would have meant people keeping jobs, more jobs created and employer sponsored healthcare. Welfare to work would have encourage people to step up and do more for themselves so the rest of us wouldn't have to carry the burden.
They could have allowed health insurance companies to compete across the country, which would have resulted in lower premiums and incentive for companies to offer more for the money. Having health insurance companies competing like the auto insurance companies would have been great.
Instead, this administration chose to reduce the availability of jobs by putting too large of a burden on small businesses and created more government dependents. Full time employees have either lost their jobs or were turned into part time employees and now qualify for government aid.
How can any liberal look at the whole picture and say we're going in the right direction? Less workers and higher tax burdens mean the middle class is about to be royally screwed again.
Unsustainable is the best word to describe liberal policies, from Social Security to Obamacare.
I have been saying that all along. The numbers just aren't that big. If we combined Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA there would be plenty to cover all of the working poor who can't buy insurance. Instead, we have a separate program which looks to be taking claims paid by insurance straight to the IRS. My medicine is $100,000/year. If they tax people for their insurance claims paid a lot of people will be worse off with insurance than without.